When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts. – Richard Branson
London clubland divides itself between the St James’s refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. – Peter York
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world. – Richard Dawkins
In London, ‘Equus’ caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists. – Peter Shaffer
London was a really multi-racial city … It’s incredible how comfortable people are with race there. – Sade Adu
Now if you look at the London ‘Times,’ you’ll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about ‘papers.’ We should cut out the word ‘paper,’ you know? It’s ‘news organizations.’ – Rupert Murdoch
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved. – Patrick White
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role. – Orlando Bloom
What I find really attractive is something that’s going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you’ve just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, ‘What have I done?’ – Peter Carey
When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with ‘Bombay Dreams.’ – Raza Jaffrey
In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I’m used to four different seasons; it’s difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow. – Roman Abramovich
I’ve always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I’d feel a complete foreigner. – Peter Doig
By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n’ roll. – Robbie Robertson
I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I’m not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it’s the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners. – Olivia Colman
I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London – now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here. – Russell Tovey
We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis. – Peter Welch
I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977. – Robert Mundell
Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I’m not just saying that! – Taylor Lautner
It’s hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer. – Toby Jones